Both Uses of
thus far
in
Leaves of Grass
- We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers,
There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.†Chpt 3 *
- 2
The indications and tally of time,
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs,
Time, always without break, indicates itself in parts,
What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company
of singers, and their words,
The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark,
but the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark,
The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality,
His insight and power encircle things and the human race,
He is the glory and extract thus far of things and of the human race.†Chpt 9
Definition:
up until now